Cuff-holder.



PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906.

H. C. FRANK.

GUFF HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 111911.14, 1905.

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HENRY C. FRANK, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

CUFF-HOLDEP.

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Be it known that I, HENRY C. FRANK, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the city and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Curl-Holders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of my present invention is to provide certain improvements inthat type of cuff-holder which comprises a shank having ashirt-sleeve-engaging clasp and a cuH-engaging hook, the invention beingparticularly directed to the novel Jformation of the cuit-retaining lugon the hook, whereby the lug is prevented from tearing the Walls of thebuttonholes of the cuff. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is anoutside view of adjacent portions of a shirt-sleeve and a separate cuff,showing my improved cuiilholder as in use and Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsection, taken in the plane of the line A A of Fig. 1, with theshirt-sleeve removed.

The shirt-sleeve is herein denoted by 1, and the curi by 2. The shank ofthe cuffholder is denoted by 3, and it is provided at its upper end witha cud-engaging hook hinged. at 4 to the shank, which hook comprises anupwardly-extended portion 5, a laterally extended portion 6, and adownwardlyextended portion 7. The hook is yieldingly held closed bymeans of a springtongue 8 cut in the shank 3. A lug 9 is punchedfrom themetal of the hook at the outer end of the laterally-extended portion 6,which lug 9 is not severed at any point 'from the body of the hook, butis of rounded Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 14, 1905. Serial No. 255,536.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

form, so as to permit it to be forced through the buttonholes in thecuii in both directions without danger of cutting the Walls of thebuttonholes. This lug 9 serves to retain the two laps of the cui'f inproper position upon the hook. The lower end of the shank 3 has pivotedthereto a shirt-sleeve-engaging clasp 10, the hinge-pintle 11 of whichis attached to the lower end of the shank :in the present instance by`folding the sides of the shank around the pintle, as shown at 12.

What I claim is 1. A cuff-holder comprising a shank having ashirt-sleeve-engaging clasp and a cuilengaging hook, the saidcud-engaging hook being provided with a rounded retaining-lug struck butnot separated from the body of the hook.

2. A cuit-holder comprising a shank having a shirt-sleevc-engaging claspand a cuil'- .engaging hook, the said cuff-engaging hook being hinged tothe shank and comprising an upwardly-extended portion, alaterally-extended portion and a downwarally-extended portion and a lugstruck 'from the body of the hook at the outer end of itslaterally-extended portion, said lug being formed without severing anyportion of the same from the body of the hook.

In testimony that I claim the 'foregoing as my invention I have signedmy name, in presence of two witnesses, this 10th day of April,

HENRY C. FRANK. Witnesses:

FREDK. I-IAYNEs. C. S. SUNDGREN.

